How to Use renewable in a Sentence
renewable
adjective- Wind and water are renewable fuel sources.
- Forests are renewable natural resources, but they must be treated with care.
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In all but one case, the renewable project required less cash.
— Carly Wanna, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2023 -
The brand has also tripled its use of renewable plastics in less than three years.
— Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2023 -
Two decades have passed since the first state law was passed to force a shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
— Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023 -
The grid operator was then able to split the costs even among states that didn’t have renewable policies but would share in the rewards.
— Brad Plumer, New York Times, 13 May 2024 -
On the one hand, there are real gains in renewable energy.
— Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023 -
And so much of that comes from these investment in the power grid and in renewable energy.
— CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023 -
For more than a decade, renewable energy has been thought of as a low-cost alternative for the Texas grid.
— Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 3 May 2023 -
The deal calls for tripling the use of renewable energy, and offshore wind will be crucial to meeting that target.
— Jennifer McDermott, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024 -
But there's more to credit for the grid's surplus than just renewable energy.
— Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023 -
But, for some, having a stone made with renewable energy is something to brag about.
— Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2024 -
But the current rate of renewable adoption is still far below what is needed to meet climate goals.
— Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023 -
Observers note there is still progress to be made in terms of prices and updates to the grid to accommodate the increase in renewable energy.
— Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2023 -
Plus, it’s made from renewable rubber tree wood, and for every tree used to build this toy, another one is planted.
— Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024 -
That goes with building out renewable sources of energy as well.
— Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2024 -
The renewable energy from Equinor will help power operations at oil and gas fields in the North Sea.
— Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022 -
In the cooking oil rift, U.S. growers of soy and other crops used to make renewable diesel stand to lose the most from the trade imbroglio, according to agriculture traders.
— Tarso Veloso, Fortune Asia, 14 May 2024 -
But the idea of a new mine that could help power the transition to renewable energy has received broad support.
— Dionne Searcey Arin Yoon, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023 -
And as far as wardrobe staples go, these $7 lightweight tank tops match everything, made from a smooth fabric that comes from renewable wood.
— Melissa Epifano, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024 -
Solar and wind aren’t the only renewable energy sources addressed in the IEA forecast.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022 -
More than 90 percent of global electricity expansion will be from renewable sources in the next five years, the IEA said.
— Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022 -
Then when the interest in renewable energy began to rise, the oil and gas industry was seen as the enemy.
— Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 21 June 2023 -
Even as solar and wind farms sprout up around the world, however, the very idea of renewable energy has come under attack in Australia.
— Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024 -
But there’s another plot device that has emerged, this one in real life: the dramatic drop in the price of renewable energy.
— Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022 -
Jerry Davis, deputy state director of renewable resources and planning from BLM, said the tribal consultation was the part of the process that required the most back-and-forth.
— Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024 -
But natural gas is not a renewable energy, and has its own spiking high prices.
— Quartz, 30 Nov. 2022 -
Vast arrays of seagoing turbines are now a common sight along many shores, and a major source of renewable electric power.
— Stanley Reed, New York Times, 13 May 2023 -
The latest data on the status of renewable energy in the U.S. has revealed which states are producing the most electricity via nuclear power.
— Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024 -
Along with using renewable resources, the production processes for both fibers use fewer resources.
— Sj Studio, Sourcing Journal, 27 Nov. 2024
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